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$5 Million Federated Cloud Project Sponsored by National Science Foundation
📅 - A new $5 million project has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The project includes building a federated cloud of data infrastructure to support engineers and scientists with big data.
The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing will lead the project, which has been named Aristotle Cloud Federation. The cloud will be shared by seven science teams and more than 40 collaborators will be included in the project across the globe. .
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